you haven't seen a dreamcast game in years. plus, a gif is not the greatest way of seeing how a game looks
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Sonic Boom Street Date (and fans' hearts) Broken
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you haven't seen a dreamcast game in years. plus, a gif is not the greatest way of seeing how a game looks
It feels like Sega had high ambitions for the Boom franchise, but then lost confidence in the whole project halfway through. Everything about this seems half-assed: The cartoon show got sent to die, the Wii U game looked like it had potential, but got pushed out way, way too early and the 3DS game likely won't be all that much better either.
It's kind of a shame, really. I'm not a fan of the redesigns, but I think that the idea behind it was pretty good and could've helped the Sonic franchise to become popular with younger audiences again if done right.
I just googled some screenshots of Sonic Adventure 2. Looks better to me. The HD version of SA2 especially looks way better.
And if you want to talk aesthetics, it looks worse than Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis.
In fact, it's the worst looking game I've ever seen.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Lol who making the OT? what will be the subtitle?
Hero of Legend
Member
Should note that in the unboxing vid, it confirmed there's DLC. Now do they only consider that luminous costume stuff as DLC, or perhaps there's more we don't know.
Which HOPEFULLY also points to a patch or two. They sure need it.
Which HOPEFULLY also points to a patch or two. They sure need it.
Crossing Eden
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This is a game made with cryengine and is on WiiU.
Yet it somehow looks like this...
I'll admit that I had like zero hope for this game, but geez man..geez..
wait,are they both the same game or do they both tell different stories?
Different stories & characters. You can't play as Amy in the 3DS version because she was kidnapped, so instead it's Sticks.
Hey, the last 4 console Sonic platformers were mediocre - great. We haven't had a truly bad one in a while.
ShinMaruku
Member
If you think a engine will remove shit from a shit dev you are delusional. Everybody knew this was a train wreck even Sega. Sega just is looking to profit. People may give them the money.
huh. which one comes before which? so you basically have to play both to get the full story before the series?
sneaky sega/nintendo
Maintenance
Member
Jesus, Luther is smarter than Knuckles now.
Zomba13
Member
I dunno, we just had Lost World.
I think they both tell different stories. The 3DS version has Lyric (snake in above gif) kidnapping Amy and Sticks the badger as the 4th character.
3DS version was bad, but I think the console one's alright. Not amazing, but not bad either.
I think the 3DS game is a sequel to the Wii U game.
Neff
Member
Nintendo is a lot richer.
I consider that one to be mediocre. I had fun with it.
Spring-Loaded
Member
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
well they aren't annoying at all.
"This will be the new Western branch of Sonic the Hedgehog"
It's pretty much a licensed game that happens to use the Sonic property. It's no different than any shovelware movie tie-in videogame released during the previous two generations. Everything about this game seemed like it was decided by executives following a generic Boys Ages 6-10 Success Formula, from Knuckles being a brute to the cookie-cutter focus-tested dialogue, the basic brawler 00's 3rd party licensced platformer gameplay with "Sonic-themed" 3-lane runner sections; even all the way to the graphics being right in place with the PS2-era Spyro games.
What a travesty.
It's pretty much a licensed game that happens to use the Sonic property. It's no different than any shovelware movie tie-in videogame released during the previous two generations. Everything about this game seemed like it was decided by executives following a generic Boys Ages 6-10 Success Formula, from Knuckles being a brute to the cookie-cutter focus-tested dialogue, the basic brawler 00's 3rd party licensced platformer gameplay with "Sonic-themed" 3-lane runner sections; even all the way to the graphics being right in place with the PS2-era Spyro games.
What a travesty.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Holy shit that looks awful. The first minute with Knuckles not knowing left or right... Oh boy.
Neff
Member
I'd even go so far as to call Lost World great once you learn the parkour system. I liked it more than Colours and Generations, which are fine Sonic games.
Rise of Lyric is basically the "origins" of the show's main baddy, Lyric (god, he sounds like he'd fit in Sonic Underground). Shattered Crystal is basically Amy discovers something about a crystal, Lyric kidnaps her so he can get the info to find said crystal, you rescue her.
I guess only the Wii U version is required story wise?
Naughty_Doge
Member
This is a game made with cryengine and is on WiiU.
Yet it somehow looks like this...
I'll admit that I had like zero hope for this game, but geez man..geez..
This really makes me want to punch Sonic in the face. Why did they make him so hateable?
Haunted
Member
I think we might have arrived at a point where a new mainline Sonic game might not be worth an OT.
Waylon Drums
Member
The 3DS game doesn't even have sprint.
Sonic Boom looks really bleak and dull. A lot of the art style looks consistent to me, so I wouldn't really say he's wrong. Sonic Adventure 2 was very vibrant, colorful and consistent. The HD release still looks great today, imo.
OmegaSmash
Member
The 3DS game actually looks a lot more competent than the WiiU version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72dSHc5h5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72dSHc5h5Q
The Bankslammer
Member
i'm glad it's terrible and not just mediocre
mediocre is no fun
mediocre is no fun
obviously i would've liked it to have been good but that wasn't gonna happen and everyone knew it
Sonic Boom |OT| Now I'm convinced, it's a bad thing.
Lost World looks like a masterpiece compared to this garbage lol.
The real Sonic team made this garbage, so I'm not too excited for their game either:
Rather than defending Lost World (Which I've done once in this thread) I'll say the team who made Generations haven't released anything since then. So there is hope.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Why does this entire game look like the secondary "gimmick" stages of Sonic Colors?